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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"social dynamics"”.
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Social dynamics of energy consumption
… climate change. Specifically, I investigate social status, status perception and social trust as drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and, inversely, as contributors to climate solutions. My analysis focuses on the developing country case of India, that is expected to significantly contribute …
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Stable configurations for population and social dynamics
… models: the Lotka--Volterra model for population dynamics and a tractable polarized opinion social dynamic model. This dissertation contains stability results of the Lotka--Volterra model when induced by a cycle graph food web network. Results such as orbits, chaos and the probability of stability …
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Athol Fugard and race relations : social dynamics under apartheid
… racial harmony. A study of his plays shows that social and political change grow from individual action as the problem of apartheid is man-made. He suggests as a solution to the problem of racism a change in individual attitudes by calling for tolerance and brotherhood among all races, with the …
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Essays on social dynamics and application of machine learning
This dissertation consists of two essays on social interactions and one exploring the application of machine learning. The first chapter develops a game-theoretic model of favor exchange where one can request indirect favors through a chain of contacts in a network. I study the cooperative behavior …
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Devising and evaluating wearable technology for social dynamics monitoring
The importance of studying social interactions has been proven useful in several fields. In the workplace, studies have found that allowing mixing among different groups could improve team coordination and productivity. Architectural studies have analysed how physical spaces can potentially …
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Simulating the Social Dynamics of Spatial Disparity Through Neighborhood Network Evolution
… on spatial disparity, the relationship between social ties and location remains open territory. While local interactions have been studied, they have not been linked to aggregate patterns of community cohesiveness or fragmentation. Recent developments in computer simulation techniques now enable …
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The Social Dynamics of Cigarette Smoking in a Junior High School
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Social dynamics of Catalan-Spanish contact in the evolution of Catalonian Spanish
… inquiring the role of specific linguistic and social factors as relevant in the process of linguistic influence from Catalan, and (2) to empirically uncover the sociolinguistic profile of each of [ɫ] and [z] in the respective social and linguistic ecologies of the Barcelonan bilingual …
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Three essays on social dynamics and land-use change: framework, model and estimator
… change models does not explicitly model these social dynamics. This omission results in underestimation of new housing construction, and failure to account for urban decline, sprawl, intra-regional migration, regional imbalances and social externalities. The research described in this …
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There is this island: Social dynamics and connectivity in Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus
… of society problematic, as agency for social change is ascribed to only a minority of people. This thesis takes a different perspective towards understanding the PreBA society. Through a bottom-up approach and a heterarchical conceptual framework, all Cypriots are understood as active …
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Hospitality Versus Patronage: an Investigation of Social Dynamics in the Third Epistle of John
… This investigation focuses on social dynamics in the third epistle of John. In the context of 3 John hospitality and patronage seem to be opposed as two non-compatible models of behavior. In what sense they are different and what makes them non compatible in a church setting is …
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Moving between scales: Computationally modelling social dynamics in the elite society of premodern China
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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The Social Dynamics of Early Helladic Sealing Practices: Seal Use and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Greece
… sealing practices in the emergence of social complexity in Early Helladic (EH) period (ca. 3100-2000 BCE) Greece. Archaeologists associate emerging complexity in mainland Greece with key developments in the EH period, including sealing practices, long-distance exchanges, monumental …
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Human geographies of the rural-urban fringe: Social dynamics of land development in the Nairobi rural-urban fringe, Kenya
… of the most important dimensions of economic, social and physical change. It is almost a truism that the planet’s future is an urban one and that the largest and fastest growing cities are primarily in developing countries. As in other parts of the developing world, the urban population in …
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Media, Representation, Persistence and Relief: the Role of the Internet in Understanding the Physical and Social Dynamics of Catastrophic Natural Hazards.
The number of recorded natural hazards has increased throughout the past four decades and recent events such as the L’Aquila, Italy earthquake and the Sichuan, China earthquake demonstrate the persistent threat posed by such events. When a natural hazard occurs, the ensuing disruption to society is …
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